Monday, April 30, 2012

Monday Random Thoughts

- Finally got the ground mount from TB because I went back to doing dailies.

- Also finally got another one of the argent mounts, just 3 more to go.

- Amazing I am still doing wrath content for fun when I am bored yet I avoid cataclysm content like the plague.

- That has to say something about the content doesn't it?

- Just noticed another staple cataclysm is missing.

- A rare mob kill achievement, like bloody rare and frostbitten.

- The more I do things the more of the little things I noticed are missing with cataclysm.

- Blizzard should be really happy that they still have a nice big player base after this disaster.

- After four days of trying here and there I was actually able to get on the beta again.

- Quite sad that pet battles need level 90 to train.

- I wanted to play around with that some.

- I've tested every quest, I leveled a panda, I done all I can do test wise.

- So I was going to test pet battles.

- Kind of hard to test something when we can not even be the level to train it so we can test it.

- Oh well, I guess it was no big deal I could not get on for four days then was it?

- I did not run DS this week on my hunter because I tanked it so I decided to do some dungeons on my hunter to make valor.

- Not like I need it, I just do it for the sake of doing it.

- I actually had to force myself to do them.

- Even with the easy as hell LFR and new dungeons and I still had no desire to do them.

- It was not the ease and/or difficulty of the content that turned me off of doing the content, it was the players that I meet in them that turned me off.

- Over all the few I did went smooth, one I did with a guild mate DPS that was extra smooth.

- Had a fresh geared tank and a fresh geared healer.

- They had to love it. Me at 39K and my guild mate at 33K made for a super smooth run.

- The third DPS was doing 18K, he was probably used to being #1 but he was smoked.

- Everything died so fast, it was nice and quick and easy.

- The tank and healer were very grateful to get a group like that.

- Have to love when gearing up to get a good group.

- How come my tanks and healers when trying to gear up never get a group with DPS like that?

- Bad luck I guess.

- One run I accidentally insulted someone.

- I assure you it was not intentional.

- After a boss which I did 62K on the healer said that was the best DPS he had ever seen in a random.

- I said, with the 15% buff and full raid gear with bosses that die so fast there is no excuse for being under even 40K, but thanks, I try my best.

- They said, tell that to the warrior, he is better geared then you and only did 20K.

- The warrior did not say anything and neither did anyone else.

- I am guessing he either ignored us, did not read english or took it as an insult aimed at him and did the high road and did not start an argument over it.

- Between you and I, it was not meant as a shot against him.

- And truth be told, if I knew he had better gear than me I would have not replied that way.

- I never even looked, it is a random dungeon, I never even cared.

- I only look when people are doing amazingly good or amazingly bad.

- He was doing good, but not amazingly so, which meant I had no reason to look.

- But lets be real here, full 397 or better gear, a less than 1 minute fight where over 1/3 of it is spent in burn phase, and the 15% buff, you should be doing at least 40K, am I right?

- Now knowing his gear I do believe he should have done a lot better, but I would never offhandedly insulted someone like that. It is not my style.

- Heck, 20K in a random is extremely good really.

- Not counting myself or my guild mates, do you know how often I see someone doing over 20K in a random?

- Maybe once every 5 runs.

- Over all most of my runs were nice, except one.

- Was a tank, one DPS and me from my guild and two people from another guild that we randomed into in the one bad one.

- The healer kept pulling and the mage left after the healer wiped us once by pulling everything.

- By left I do not mean left group, I mean was hanging out in the mage quarter in stromwind.

- After two more attempts at running the circle into the moonwells, where the healer refused to move with the group and kept attacking mobs that where not even fighting us causing themselves to die and us in the process we tried to kick the mage.

- Sadly, the way things are now, if a guild group of three try to kick someone, they need the forth person to agree and of course the healer would not agree to kick his completely useless friend.

- Despite the healer and mages efforts to grief the group we downed the rest of the stuff without them somehow.

- They both left at the boss.

- At least they left before we pulled it.

- See, it is people like that that make me always feel like I have nothing to do in cataclysm.

- If there are not enough on for a guild run and there are no raids going on there is nothing for me to do dungeon wise.

- Back in wrath I would just random on alts when I got bored.

- Now I do not random at all most of the time.

- It is not worth the effort.

- Seeing healers try to wipe groups instead of keeping them up.

- Seeing no one be able to do over 20K even when in some heroic DS gear.

- Seeing mages hang out in the mage quarter and not being able to kick them.

- And when we do report the one person we can, the mage, we are told to relax and let it slide my the GMs.

- If we report the healer for pulling the GMs will just write it off as, maybe they are new and do not know any better.

- So reporting does nothing to fix the problem either because the GM's are completely useless and do not even enforce their own game rules.

- More than anything else it is the lack of anything to do when running solo in cataclysm that is what kills this expansion for me.

- I guess that is why I am still doing the argent dailies to pass that free time.

- I can do it solo, I can get mounts and pets, and those pets still sell quite nicely.

- The best thing to do the pass the time in cataclysm solo is in wrath content.

- That really says something doesn't it?

- Good luck achievement hunting on children's week.

- From the early returns I've heard of people trying to get the PvP stuff done it seems like this year it is easier with more people helping each other and less people competing to do them.

- I guess that is one of the good things with blizzard losing nearly one fifth of its player base and not being able to attract any new players.

1 comment:

I have to say, I can't really get my Monday started at work without reading a Monday Random Thoughts.

And I have to say, I don't mind the Cata levelling content, but I feel like I'm very disconnected from the story. In Wrath, I felt like I was actually involved.

Although I don't mind archaeology too much. Not a terrible addition. And I'm glad they at least made sure you'd be getting some money from the vendor trash you make while you're grinding your brains into dust looking for that goddamned vial of the sands recipe.